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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the narrator's house burglarized?
(a) Five years before the events of the book.
(b) Three years before the events of the book.
(c) Twelve years before the events of the book.
(d) Four years before the events of the book.

2. Why does the narrator cry when arriving in town?
(a) Because of her cancer medication.
(b) Because of the beauty of the coast.
(c) Because of her pain.
(d) Because of allergies.

3. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Drive white people out of the township.
(b) Burn their own school.
(c) Fight with white students.
(d) Burn a police station.

4. What does Florence say the police do to black boys who are not in school?
(a) Drink with them.
(b) Fine them.
(c) Arrest them.
(d) Attack them.

5. What does the narrator bring the person that lives near her house the morning after his return?
(a) Water.
(b) Tea.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Cocoa.

6. What does access to money allow Mr. Vercueil to do?
(a) Drink.
(b) Study.
(c) Pay his debts.
(d) Pay for his gambling habit.

7. What do Bheki and his friend crash into?
(a) A bay window.
(b) A wall.
(c) A plumber's car.
(d) A police car.

8. What does the narrator tell the person that calls her?
(a) That the dog is hers.
(b) That the homeless man owns the dog.
(c) That the pool house heats the pool.
(d) That the vagrant is in fact her employee.

9. What happens to the narrator's car in Page 16?
(a) It refuses to start.
(b) The engine starts on fire.
(c) It gets a flat tire.
(d) The engine backfires.

10. What does the narrator say about the media?
(a) They only cover reality TV.
(b) They do not cover the last South African gold medalist at the Olympics.
(c) They do not print the letter she sent them.
(d) They do not cover what happens in the townships.

11. What does the narrator write about?
(a) The Berlin wall.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) The Afghan war.
(d) The space race.

12. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?
(a) The graffiti left on her sofa.
(b) The vandalism.
(c) Stealing her piano.
(d) The burglars where white.

13. Who does the narrator ask for help with her car problems?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) The neighbor.
(c) The homeless man.
(d) A mechanic.

14. What does the narrator offer to do for Florence?
(a) Buy her a car.
(b) Drive her to the hospital.
(c) Bring her back home.
(d) Pay for legal expenses.

15. What does Mr. Vercueil do with the little girls?
(a) Wets them with a hose.
(b) Plays with them.
(c) Yells at them.
(d) Tells them to go away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the housekeeper's husband work?

2. What does the narrator ask the man to do after seeing what he purchased?

3. What job does the narrator offer the man she went to town with?

4. Why did the housekeeper bring her son to the narrator's house?

5. How much money does the man take from the narrator?

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